Pre-orders for Beyond Innocence will start dropping tonight at midnight, but it’s cruel to make you guys wait. So if you’d like to get started before the book goes live tonight, you can grab the first nine chapters of the book here: [download id=”6516″]

Beyond Innocence: Beyond Series #6

For years, Jared has existed on the fringes of both Eden society and Dallas O’Kane’s Sector Four gang. He travels between these worlds, protected by his money and power–money he earned selling his body, and power that comes from knowing secrets. He’s untouchable—until he starts a new life gathering intelligence for the O’Kanes.

Lili Fleming walked out of Sector Five with a gun, the bloodstained clothes on her back, and an icy determination to survive. She finds herself in a world where people live hard and love harder, and nothing’s more terrifying than how much the O’Kanes wake her up, make her feel—especially Jared.

Emotion is a risk he can’t afford, and a complication she doesn’t need. But neither can resist the lust simmering between them, and the sparks that could either melt the ice around both their hearts…or get them killed. Because the only thing more dangerous than loving an O’Kane is loving a spy.

Post-Apocalyptic Romance Reads!

In celebration of Beyond Innocence‘s release, we have a thirteen post-apocalyptic stories we didn’t write (and two we did) up for grabs in a massive, End-of-the-World contest! And while you’re at it, we’ll even give you a kindle to read them on! 😀

Beyond Innocence – Book Six

For years, Jared has existed on the fringes of both Eden society and Dallas O’Kane’s Sector Four gang. He travels between these worlds, protected by his money and power–money he earned selling his body, and power that comes from knowing secrets. He’s untouchable—until he starts a new life gathering intelligence for the O’Kanes.

Lili Fleming walked out of Sector Five with a gun, the bloodstained clothes on her back, and an icy determination to survive. She finds herself in a world where people live hard and love harder, and nothing’s more terrifying than how much the O’Kanes wake her up, make her feel—especially Jared.

Emotion is a risk he can’t afford, and a complication she doesn’t need. But neither can resist the lust simmering between them, and the sparks that could either melt the ice around both their hearts…or get them killed. Because the only thing more dangerous than loving an O’Kane is loving a spy.

Good news, O’Kanes! We are almost finished with Beyond Innocence and should be delivering it into the loving hands of our editor within the next couple weeks. Once we have the first round of edits back and know how much work we have to get this book in perfect shape, we’ll announce the official release date and get it up for pre-order at a few places, at the very least. But it certainly won’t be long now, which means…

Where’s Beyond Innocence?!?

Our initial estimate was early 2015. Alas, one of us had a few health complications later in 2014 that lead to the deadline on Beyond Possession being a lot tighter than we wanted. We always end up a little short on writing time during the holidays, and this year we took a little extra time off to try to get some much-needed energy restored.

Some of you have asked how the pre-order experiment went with Beyond Possession. It’s still hard to say for sure–I think it helped us on some sites and hurt us on Amazon (the math of publishing is mysterious and strange!) but in this case, the sales were not the biggest problem.

The best part of self-publishing, for us, is that the books get to take us exactly as long as they take us. Sometimes that means we finish them more quickly than expected (that was Beyond Addiction!) Sometimes we get stuck and have to backtrack to make sure we’ve got the right plot and are writing the best story we can.

Setting a pre-order date puts a limit on that freedom, and after last year, we’ve decided that, for now, that limit isn’t worth it. These books are very intense to write, and now that we’re deep into the sector plot, they’re getting even more complicated!

So we’re going to go back to keeping you updated as we write, and if we do put up any pre-orders, it will be after the book is finished. I know that keeps you guys guessing, and no one likes guessing, but I hope you all agree that the first priority has to be giving us enough time to write a kick-ass book.

As it stands, we’ve got a good foundation down for Beyond Innocence and writing is going a lot faster now. But as much as I hate to torment you, we won’t be picking an official date until the book is done and we know we can meet it. That keeps us healthy, keeps the books the best we can make them, and saves you guys the disappointment.

After a slow start in audio, we’re finally catching up. Beyond Temptation is available now, Beyond Solitude is in final approval, and Beyond Possession is with our narrator. We’re hoping to be mostly caught up by the time Beyond Innocence comes out, and we’ll be getting to that one a lot faster, too, if all goes well.

There’s a lot of news that I’m behind in sharing, but it’s been a busy couple weeks. Thanks so much to everyone who came out to the signing. It was lovely to meet you all, and we had a great time. We also spilled a few secrets about upcoming projects. 😀

The good news: Beyond Possession is in our editor’s hands, and with luck and the very tolerant assistance of our long-suffering editors and proofers, everything will be set for release day on November 10th. While this may not be our last pre-order, it probably will be the last one we set up before we’ve finished the book. (Eeek, stress! Eeek, so close!)

More good news: Beyond Jealousy is available in audio! Yes, finally! Ace, Cruz & Rachel’s epic, dirty journey is ready to scandalize friends, neighbors and hapless toll booth operators. You can find Beyond Jealousy on Audible.com or iTunes.

We are looking for audiobook reviewers! If you are an audiobook reviewer, be it one who posts reviews to a blog or just to Audible, we have a limited # of download codes for audible.com. If you’re interested in one, send us an e-mail at kit@kitrocha.com and let us know!

With Beyond Possession just around the corner, it seems like a great time for a sale! Through the end of October, you can get Beyond Shame for free and Beyond Control for just 99 cents. If you know anyone who might enjoy spending time with Dallas, Lex, Noelle & Jas–it won’t get cheaper than this. (And at the end of the month, prices will be going up for a while, so strike now!)